tetta
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin titta, titia, from Frankish *titta, from Proto-Germanic *titt- (“teat; nipple; breast”), from Proto-Indo-European *tata- (“father; parent; nipple”).
Compare also French tette, Spanish and Portuguese teta, Romanian țâță, English teat. The word is found in many European languages and may simply be ultimately an expressive formation based on infantile language.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -etta
Noun
tetta f (plural tette)
Synonyms
See also
Mayo
Etymology
From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïn-ta.
Noun
tetta (plural téttam)
References
- Collard, Howard, Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)[1] (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 83, 189
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Verb
tetta
- inflection of tette:
- simple past
- past participle
Categories:
- Italian terms inherited from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Frankish
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Rhymes:Italian/etta
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian informal terms
- Mayo terms inherited from Proto-Uto-Aztecan
- Mayo terms derived from Proto-Uto-Aztecan
- Mayo lemmas
- Mayo nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms